Worst. Building. Ever.

Exit · 17-01-2004 08:46PM #1

Looks like a joke, but it's not.
More here - http://www.ocad.on.ca/

Sundy · 17-01-2004 09:12PM

huh, makes the irish life centre look nice!

DMT · 17-01-2004 09:19PM

WTF?

Capt'n Midnight · 17-01-2004 09:27PM

If all the tiles & supports were the same colour it wouldn't look too bad.

Nomination: Wood Quay.

luckat · 17-01-2004 09:32PM

My favourite house:

http://www.archinform.net/projekte/4325.htm?ID=53166540300ee3717ed8cef8e4e52ee6

Crimson · 17-01-2004 09:43PM

or dear anyone else feel like there in the 80s again ?:dunno:

Kalina · 17-01-2004 09:46PM

It looks like a tissue box on legs! Tasteless to say the least.

dod · 17-01-2004 10:02PM

No contest, the worst building in the world (and Dublin has many contenders for this dubious accolade) has to be Hawkins House, Poolbeg Street (opposite Mulligans pub). My criteria is, if you were to be granted the opportunity to demolish only one building, which building would it be? For me, the answer most certainly is Hawkins House.

Atreides · 17-01-2004 10:06PM

Thast applo house sin't it? Thats what it says on the tara street entrance.

po0k · 17-01-2004 10:41PM

Originally posted by Exit

Looks like a joke, but it's not.
More here - http://www.ocad.on.ca/

Looks like a bad Half-life map.

Agent Smith · 17-01-2004 10:54PM

a decent nomination has to be the British embasey in dublin (ballsbridge)

worse building ever!

DadaKopf · 17-01-2004 10:59PM

I like it. It's good to see architects stretching their imagination and pushing the limits of engineering capabilities.

I'd love to see a building like that in Dublin. It reminds me a lot of London's Peckham Library that won the Stirling Prize two contests ago. Most of it stands up on what are, effectively, stilts and inside there's aren't study rooms, there's reading 'pods' or something. OUTRAGEOUS!
It also reminds me of Le Centre Georges Pompidou.

As for Apollo House, the only word I have to describe that vessel is "sick". The building literally looks ill, as if it and its corpuscular inhabitants are in bad need of a good dose of medicine.

Hmm, do you suppose your feelings on the British Embassy says more about your nationalist sentiments than it does about a laudable effort to balance security, modernity and tradition into one vision of domination? Not the best, but definitely not the worst.

Töpher · 17-01-2004 11:21PM

Originally posted by agent smith
a decent nomination has to be the British embasey in dublin (ballsbridge)

worse building ever!

What an eye-sore!! Every fúcking morning I have to look at that piece o' crap! ACK! Hate it!

Cabaal · 17-01-2004 11:39PM

Originally posted by Exit

It looks like it was designed in MS Paint and then cleaned up abit and given a 3D Look

mike65 · 17-01-2004 11:57PM

Yes it is finnished and has'nt just been bombed. I like it!

Mike.

phreak · 17-01-2004 11:59PM

Originally posted by mike65

Yes it is finnished and has'nt just been bombed. I like it!

Mike.

where is that?

mike65 · 18-01-2004 12:05AM

I think its in Prague.

Now heres the kind of thing to hate-

Mike.

dod · 18-01-2004 12:07AM

where is that?

Thats the offices of my family solicitor. At the moment my mother is on the third floor throwing a wobbly, and time and space is warping around her in fear. The buildings, individuals, cereals, shopping centres, laws, corporations and institutions to which my mother decides to take irrational exception usually recover after a few hundred years.

Or if she throws an equal and opposite wobbly in a nearby building, she might unintentionally bend that building back to its original dimensions.

mike65 · 18-01-2004 12:11AM

At the moment my mother is on the third floor throwing a wobbly, and time and space is warping around her in fear

Someones on the extra-strong...!

Dramatic and cool...

Mike.

sceptre · 18-01-2004 01:11AM

Originally posted by dod
Thats the offices of my family solicitor. At the moment my mother is on the third floor throwing a wobbly, and time and space is warping around her in fear. The buildings, individuals, cereals, shopping centres, laws, corporations and institutions to which my mother decides to take irrational exception usually recover after a few hundred years.

Like dod said, it's in Prague.

Turkey · 18-01-2004 02:21AM

Worst building, is it :cool: to quote Bono; " I see seven towers........"

AdMMM · 18-01-2004 10:37AM

Originally posted by Exit

Looks like a joke, but it's not.
More here - http://www.ocad.on.ca/

You'd wonder what the architect's inspiration was...

DadaKopf · 18-01-2004 11:36AM

Oh! I was right!

Meet Our Architects
In November 2000, OCAD selected European firm Alsop Architects as design architect to work in a joint venture with Toronto-based Robbie/Young + Wright, the project architect, to produce OCAD's capital expansion project.

Award-winning, Alsop Architects, led by William Alsop, is known for bold and innovative building design. Only days before OCAD's decision, the firm received the top architectural honour in the UK, the Stirling Prize for the Building of the Year, for its Peckham Library and Media Centre in London.

"We are absolutely thrilled to embark on this project with such an important architectural group", says Lenore Richards, OCAD's Dean of the Faculty of Design. "The originality and sophistication that Alsop Architects has demonstrated in previous design projects is outstanding. The boldness in its vocabulary of form, materials and colour results in buildings that are engaging and extraordinarily memorable. The design capabilities of Alsop Architects, combined with the project management expertise of Robbie/Young + Wright, give us great confidence that our new Centre for Design will become a remarkable new landmark in the city of Toronto."

Specific Information about OCAD's project can also be found on the architects' Web sites.

Links:
Alsop Architects
Robbie Young + Wright Architects

from http://www.ocad.on.ca/welcomC/Carchitects.html

It always helps to read stuff before you go asking stupid questions.

And by the way, that warped office block in Prague was designed by Frank Gehry, the guy who designed this:

The Guggenheim in Bilbao

Jokah · 18-01-2004 12:48PM

That building that Dod posted up is an embarrassment to the Irish People. Thank god its hidden behind the buildings on D'olier street.

You only have to stand outside it, to see that you wouldn't board your dog there.

I agree with Dod, it should be demolished. I believe the department of Children and Health is based in that building also.

Sham, Sham, Sham.....

Such a depressing building...

Atreides · 18-01-2004 01:02PM

Originally posted by Jokah
That building that Dod posted up is an embarrassment to the Irish People. Thank god its hidden behind the buildings on D'olier street.

You only have to stand outside it, to see that you wouldn't board your dog there.

I agree with Dod, it should be demolished. I believe the department of Children and Health is based in that building also.

Sham, Sham, Sham.....

Such a depressing building...

Nope Revenue used to have it, its now where all the refuses go. Department of immigration

monument · 18-01-2004 02:07PM

Originally posted by |.Murderer.|
You'd wonder what the architect's inspiration was...

Probably the central bank.

BuffyBot · 18-01-2004 04:39PM

Britsh Embassy? It's not so bad when you compare it to the American one up the road..and is it a Texaco (some Petrol company I think) building also nearby. Now they are ugly.

Also, if anyone is familar with Naas, the eircom exchange building has to be one of the ugliest buildings built in the county of Kildare

Kold · 18-01-2004 05:31PM

Originally posted by DadaKopf

The Guggenheim in Bilbao

That's actually class.

oneweb · 18-01-2004 05:46PM

Originally posted by dod
No contest, the worst building in the world (and Dublin has many contenders for this dubious accolade) has to be Hawkins House, Poolbeg Street (opposite Mulligans pub). My criteria is, if you were to be granted the opportunity to demolish only one building, which building would it be? For me, the answer most certainly is Hawkins House.

I'm not joking here, but that's the Department of Health & Safety building, right? If you walk past (hurridly, for fear of it tumbling at any moment) just look at the state of the window frames :eek: I wouldn't tread anywhere near it if I didn't have to get my bus down the road. Unhealthy and unsafe? Very likely.

blondie83 · 18-01-2004 05:48PM

While I was visiting a friend down in Cork last Summer, and we drove past the worst building ever - turns out to be the county council offices. It actually looks a lot worse than it is in this photo (it's a photo from their website)

http://members.boards.ie/blondie83/cork.jpg

Kold · 18-01-2004 05:51PM

ah but in all fairness you haven't seen it on winter nights.. they leave the lights of offices on in the shape of an xmas tree.... *sigh* romantic...

Worst. Building. Ever.

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